The Printer's Devil exists because we got tired of waiting.

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Most student publications arrive with an agenda: a tone to maintain, a brand to protect, a committee to satisfy. We wanted something looser and more honest. A place where an argument about men's tailoring sits comfortably alongside a film essay, a restaurant review, or something we haven't thought of yet.

Nothing too obscure, nothing too familiar, no hierarchy of what counts as worth writing or posting about.

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We started this in our penultimate year at Durham, outside the university's orbit by design. There is nothing wrong with writing for established associations and we have done it ourselves, but we wanted a room with no ceiling and no dress code.

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The name refers to the apprentice who worked the early printing press: the youngest person in the room, usually covered in ink, doing the unglamorous work of getting words out into the world. That felt about right.

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If you have photographs, ideas or something to say and nowhere obvious to say it, that is precisely the kind of thing we are interested in.

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Get in touch below, follow us on Instagram, or email us at theprintersdevilmag@gmail.com.

 

 

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